Sentence examples similar to terse footnotes from inspiring English sources

(Occasionally the author adds a terse footnote to a redaction he feels especially sore about).

In his classic 1948 bar guide, "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks," David A. Embury has a terse footnote: "If you shake the Martini, it becomes a Bradford". Still, the idea of shaking never goes away.

Terse, hard-boiled.

("The footnotes! The footnotes!").

And footnotes.

— he grew terse.

Terse words were exchanged.

Why footnotes?

The footnotes.

Rather constricted and terse, yes?

The poem was terse.